Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium celebrates Timothy (Tim) A. Kohler’s (TAKO’s) archaeological career. His roots were laid in Florida where he studied at McKeithen Village on Weeden Island. His research at WSU refocused on Southwestern United States (SWUS) with the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) and at Bandelier National Monument (BAND). Tim’s collaboration with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) highlighted his research on an international and interdisciplinary stage. His modeling research with the Village Ecodynamics Project (VEPI, VEPII-N and -S) explained changes in settlement systems in the Upland U.S. Southwest (UUSS) between A.D. 600 and 1760. He led the Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE) project to improve accessibility for paleoenvironmental data. He continued to highlight archaeology’s importance through his contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. In 2022, Tim was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his outstanding original research achievements. Tim is currently a co-PI on the Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project which studies the development of social inequality. Scholars in this symposium will discuss the significance of Tim’s career and how Tim influenced their own, including presenting new research inspired by or building on Tim’s work.